I just saw the outcome of a year long effort from both the Indilinx and the PLX teams at OCZ: the Vector SSD (pictured above). Unlike the Octane and Vertex 4 drives, the Barefoot 3 controller here uses OCZ's own IP and isn't licensed from Marvell.

Although the NAND packages are screened with the OCZ logo, you're looking at Micron MLC NAND on this particular board.

I would assume OCZ can use whatever NAND they want -- so we'll probably see some asynchronous solutions along with the other stuff. I just want to know if performance is there or not (and reliability).Reply

This may have been delayed and put OCZ to make custom firmware with Marvell? Controller Performance has been tweaked to the point where the difference are nearly negligible apart from benchmarks. What we really need is a much lower power usage controller while retain similar performance. And then we need 20Gbps+ I/O port to future prove our SSD. Reply

Sounds good, but Everest 2 has really turned me off from OCZ and I was a big supporter of OCZ when everyone got on their case for Sandforce issues. Everest 2's reduced performance the more the drive is filled, even if less with 1.5 firmware, still seems like shady marketing to me. That's putting aside any relaibility concerns. I hope this doesn't show the same tendency, and if it does I hope websites run *all* their tests in a manner that exposes it.Reply